What do you mean by the New World Order? How is the United States trying to establish its hegemony through this concept.
What do you mean by the New World Order?
“The New World Order refers to a new period of history evidencing dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power in international relations. After renouncing the policy of isolationism in the early days of the twentieth century, the U.S.A. always fought the wars for establishing its hegemony. It fought the First World War to put an end to all wars.
The country fought the Second World War to make the world safe for democracy. It fought war against Iraq to establish a ‘New World Order’ made possible by the end of the cold war.
What do you mean by the New World Order?
New World Order
What do you mean by the New World Order?
People over the word, even the Americans, seemed utterly confused by president Bush’s rhetoric on this term. It was on January 16, 1991 in his speech, announcing hostilitics with Iraq that President Bush declared that an opportunity had come for building a new world order “where the rule of law governs the conduct of nations”, and “in which a credible United Nations can use its peace-keeping role to fulfil the promise and the vision of the UN’s founders.”
What do you mean by the New World Order?
Hegemonistic intentions of the United States- In the heart of its hearts, U.S.A. always wants its hegemony. It wants to place itself as the world’s policemen. The Pentagon, while laying down the Defence Planning Guidelines for 1994-99 said “Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere. This is a dominant consideration to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidate control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
There are three additional aspects to this objective. First, the US must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new world order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors and they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. Second, in the non-defence areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industry to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political or economic order. Finally, we must maintain the mechanism for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.
The second objective is to address sources of regional conflict and instability in such a way to promote increasing respect for international law limits, international violence, and encourage the spread of democratic forms of government and open economic systems. Various types of US interests may be involved in such instances: access to vital raw materials, primarily Persian Gulf oil, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles; threats to US citizens from terrorism or regional or local conflict, and threats to US soviet from narcotics trafficking.
What do you mean by the New World Order?
United Nations as an Instrument
What do you mean by the New World Order?
For the realisation of these objectives, the United States intends to use the United Nations as an instrument. It wants UNO to act on its instance. That is how, in his capacity as a single player on the international stage, President Bush hijacked the United Nations.
President Bush made it an instrument of his national interest. It was made possible by the dramatic decline and fall of the Soviet Union which ceased to be an adversary. It could not afford to be an active player while there was political turmoil and economic fiasco at home. In addition to Soviet timidity, Chinese opportunism, West European disarray and Third World members of the Security Council facing economic and political crisis, made it possible for the United States to dictate terms. Consequently, the U.S. preferred to limit its diplomacy within the Security Council. The consensus in the Security Council over the resolution 678 authorising all ‘necessary’ means to free Kuwait was unprecedented but not surprising .
U.S. efforts at establishing New World Order
There is a widespread belief, and rightly too, that the USA fought the Gulf war to make the oil of the region safe for itself-not only right now but in the times to come to contain Germany and Japan, the economic giants, from dominating the world stage. USA has enough oil for itself beneath its own soil and also in the backyard-the Caribbean and South American countries. It is Germany and Japan which are solely dependent upon the Arab oil. So, USA for its national interest, want a control over the Gulf oil.
Not only that, the USA wants to contain India as well so as to checkmate its emergence as a regional power.
India in the perception of USA, is highly constrained by ideological predilections and by the sentiments of its Muslim constituency in that it as has no room for accommodating American view point.
That is why, the Bush Administration once again revived the Super 301 threat against India in order to force India to accept US laws on International business and commerce.
That is how, India stands nowhere in the new world order that President _Bush envisages.
Instead, Pakistan is again expected to play a strategic role in the Gulf security structure. The first official indication to this effect came from Assistant Secretary of Defence, Henry Rowen, who in a Congress hearing said, “Pakistan can also contribute importantly to our interests in post-crisis security arrangements for the Gulf-Pakistan has long-standing military relations with all the Gulf States.”
In the draft of Defence Planning Guidance for the fiscal years 1994-99, outlined on February 18, 1992, the American Pentagon, the highest policy framing agency, said: “We should discourage Indian hegemonistic aspirations over the other States in South Asia and on the Indian Ocean. With regard to Pakistan, a constructive US-Pakistan military relationship will be an important element in our strategy to promote stable condition in South West Asia and Central Asia. We should therefore endeavour to re-build our military relationship given the acceptable resolution of our nuclear concerns. We should work to have both countries, India and Pakistan, to adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to place their nuclear energy facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.”
Saudi Arabia and Egypt will play an important role in the proposed security arrangements while Syria, Iran, and Pakistan will participate in the military structure along with other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Accordingly, Pakistan will rearm with high-tech weapons to play the allotted role. Pakistan will receive sophisticated weaponry, attack helicopters and missile system. The United States will provide Pakistan with additional F-16 aircraft and many hundreds of M1A1 Abrams tanks, which can withstand nuclear and chemical attacks and possess highly sophisticated technology and nuclear warhead capabilities.
The USA is not complacent on China as well as. It has singled out China as a major arms Vendor in West Asia region and asked China to help prevent the arms race. President Bush has declared that it would be tragic if a new arms race were to develop in West Asia.
And, James Baker, the Secretary of State, told Congress that time had come to
try to change the destructive pattern of military competition in the already over-militarised area.
” But as the rhetoric on arms
control were still sounding, a campaign to promote arms sales abroad started”, said Xinhun, the official Chinese News Agency.
It added that “political influence usually goes along
with the armament shipment” and said “after
the Gulf War, the U.S. apparently thinks its leading role in the Gulf Area should not be challenged.”
What do you mean by the New World Order?
U.S. Realisation
What do you mean by the New World Order?
The U.S.A. realises that New World Order of its conception needs co-operation from other countries as well. That is why, US sought India’s order. US Secretary of State, James Baker’s request to
the Foreign Secretary Muchkund Dubey was to all intents and purposes a manifestation of Washington’s irritation that since
India became a member of the UN Security Council
it has refused to be stream-rolled by the US-sponsored resolutions particularly with regard to Iraq.
It however, needs to be given a
due thought since the US draft for permanent cease-fire in Iraq is no less
than the Treaty of Versailes which became responsible for the birth of Nazi Hitler. Two of its provisions go for beyond the Iraq situation.
The first pertains to the climination of weapons of mass
destruction in possession of or under development in Iraq-chemical, biological and nuclear.
“The second relates to reparations to be paid
by Iraq as war damages to the nations which have a claim on Iraq.
Restitution is no doubt
allowed by international law
but neither the USA in the case of
Vietnam nor Israel in the case of Lebanon ever paid anything like that.
The reparations extracted
from Germany after the Versailes Treaty led to high inflation and mass unemployment in Germany resulting in another World War. Iraq has already paid a heavy price by remaining under bomb rain for over a month.”
So if President Bush means making all
other nations fall in line, there is nothing new about this coveted new world order. He forgets that the new world order can not be made according to American specifications. In fact, the new world order
means a system in which all the nations
co-operate willingly, on the basis of equality and fair and equitable return on their raw materials and products.
For the New World order to be enduring,
it must be based on justice, fairplay and harmonious relationships between the different segments of humanity.
Human race cannot for long afford to
remain divide into two segments-one consisting of developed and affluent nations and the other composed of poor, non-developed.
